# Cato's Ale House, Oakland CA: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/oakland/cato-s-ale-house-oakland-ca. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-09-09.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/oakland/cato-s-ale-house-oakland-ca

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## In short

Cato's Ale House is an american restaurant in Oakland, CA. Its AI Score is 25 of 100, which is poor.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | American restaurant |
| Address | 3891 Piedmont Ave, Oakland, CA 94611, USA |
| Hours | Mon 11:30 AM to 11 PM · Tue to Sat 11:30 AM to 12 AM · Sun 11:30 AM to 11 PM |
| Phone | (510) 655-3349 |
| Rating | 4.5 across 1,041 reviews on Google |
| Quietest time | Wednesday |
| Updated | September 9, 2026 |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 3891 Piedmont Ave, Oakland, CA 94611, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Mellow pub caters to local regulars with rotating taps, bar grub & occasional live tunes. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon 11:30 AM to 11:00 PM · Tue to Sat 11:30 AM to 12:00 AM · Sun 11:30 AM to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Cato's Ale House | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (510) 655-3349 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 11:30 AM to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 11:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 11:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 11:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 11:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 11:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 11:30 AM to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | American cuisine | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Bar food | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Draft beer | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Live music | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Online ordering | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Order now | From their website | Business website |
| Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/catosalehouse | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Instagram | https://instagram.com/catosalehouse | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Website | http://www.catosalehouse.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

These are the 1 service Cato's Ale House offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Order now |  |  |  | From their website |


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## Visiting Cato's Ale House

Address: 3891 Piedmont Ave, Oakland, CA 94611, USA. Phone: (510) 655-3349. Hours: Mon 11:30 AM to 11 PM · Tue to Sat 11:30 AM to 12 AM · Sun 11:30 AM to 11 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "Mellow pub caters to local regulars with rotating taps, bar grub & occasional live tunes."


### When to go

Quietest day: Wednesday. Busiest day: Friday. From the popular times on its Google listing.


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Yummy Yummy Hibachi | Japanese restaurant | 1 min walk |
| TAKOREA | Restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Me and Jungle Cafe | Cafe | 1 min walk |
| Kaiser Permanente Parking Garage - Howe Street | Parking garage | 2 min walk |
| Snow White Coffee | Coffee shop | 2 min walk |
| Thai Taste Kitchen | Thai restaurant | 2 min walk |


## Reputation

4.5 average across 1,041 reviews: Google 1,041. (Confirmed, read September 9, 2026.)

Cato's Ale House is cherished for its beer selection and classic dishes, but faces criticism for service and food quality inconsistencies. (AI guess, from 1,041 reviews.)


### What people like

- Fish and chips
- Fried chicken sandwich
- Great beer selection
- Pizza/salad combo


### What people do not like

- Long waits for service
- Inconsistent food quality
- Distractions from sports broadcasts
- Staff training concerns


### Press

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## Questions people ask


### prices round here, anyone got a number


### where does this place post updates


### people keep recommending this place, what for?


### best american restaurant in Oakland


### membership, worth it or not


### worth it or not, what do the regulars say


### is there a day here that is not slammed


### anywhere cheaper than Cato's Ale House in Oakland that is still good?


### do I need to fill anything in beforehand


### rough idea what Cato's Ale House costs?


### any last minute tables here?


### Are the hours on Google right for Cato's Ale House in Oakland?


### picking between the two, is Grand Lake the safer bet?


### anything people actually moan about here?


### address for Cato's Ale House, anyone have it?


### what else is on Piedmont around Cato's Ale House?


## The AI Score: 25 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. American restaurants on the registry run 18 to 62. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Cato's Ale House scores 25. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Cato's Ale House |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 83 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 57 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 33 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Poor |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 57 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to say about an american restaurant: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Cato's Ale House |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cato's Ale House | LocalBusiness | #business | http://www.catosalehouse.com/ | Subject of this page |
| Oakland, California | City | #city |  | City Cato's Ale House is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the american restaurants in Oakland, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best american restaurants in Oakland: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/oakland/american-restaurant
- Best businesses in Oakland: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/oakland


### Nearby

- /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose
- /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles
- /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco
- /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego
- /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine
- /mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJa79xLPh9hYARECRg-9zqtxM (accessed Sep 9, 2026)
- [2] catosalehouse.com, https://catosalehouse.com/order-now/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [3] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 9, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026)